Who's Saving The Children?

The Republicans have weaponized our healthcare... making it harder and harder to get proper healthcare for us, especially for the young.

They have toted ex-trans people around the country as poster children to be used against us. But not all who have detransitioned think it was a bad thing transitioning.

She detransitioned at 20. She’s still scared about her right to gender-affirming care.

As providers of gender-affirming care have become political targets, Ara Kareis’ own medical care has been disrupted.

19^th News

By Orion Rummler

November 12, 2025

For Ara Kareis, the Trump administration’s rhetoric about detransitioners and transgender people is not just wrong — it’s scary. 

“The whole administration is scaring me right now,” said Kareis, a 22-year-old North Carolina resident who detransitioned a few years ago. To her, the rhetoric shared by the president and the vice president that portrays gender transition as a form of mutilation is deeply harmful. And as providers of gender-affirming care have become federal targets, her own medical care has been disrupted. 

Her insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield, has repeatedly refused to cover a pap smear or a routine breast cancer exam since her legal name, changed during her transition, is still male. The last time Kareis spoke to her endocrinologist, her doctor was concerned about losing her job under the Trump administration.

“My regular care has been impeded because of the current administration’s politics,” Kareis said. “Things have been getting worse and worse as time passes.”

She transitioned to male when she was 17.

I know n\many ex-trans people, they have detransitioned many reasons.

• One trans woman detransitioned because she couldn't find a job and had to move back in with her parents. I use female pronouns because still still identifies as female.
• One trans woman detransitioned because of pressure from he family.
• One trans woman detransitioned because she realized that he wasn't trans but gay.

Many of them still identifies as trans but the transition was too hard on them, so they only crossdress now.

Kareis hadn’t considered top surgery until a therapist recommended it to her, she said. She came to believe that, to be a man, she had to do it. After surgery, she told her therapist that she hadn’t felt ready to go through with it. The therapist dismissed her feelings and put the onus of the decision squarely on her.

Run away from therapists who lead and not guide! The function of a therapist is help you explore your inner-self not to direct you.

Kareis hadn’t considered top surgery until a therapist recommended it to her, she said. She came to believe that, to be a man, she had to do it. After surgery, she told her therapist that she hadn’t felt ready to go through with it. The therapist dismissed her feelings and put the onus of the decision squarely on her. 

She holds no animosity toward the community, it is just a facet of her life.

“The detransition space online is so oversaturated with right-wingers saying that transition is wrong for everybody, saying that they were saved from transition, saying all these harmful things about transition, and saying things to try to take away trans healthcare in America,” they said. “These stories are being co-opted by the right to take away health care.” 

Kareis wants to spread a message: Even if someone pursues gender-affirming care and completely regrets it, there is still life afterwards. They still have a choice to be who they feel they are.

“Looking at me, I don’t think I’m ruined forever. I don’t think that somebody who detransitions is ruined. I think that we are worth more than our biological parts,” she said. 

That is the thing... they Republicans drag around their little pets and like a caged animal they are harming the children as they parade them around the county. Just think what they are doing to those kids! The Republicans are the evil one... put their hatred of us above the wellbeing of the children!